Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its face. Catania first saw a star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) ...

Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Two species of dwarf hamsters are used to develop a model of the proximate and ultimate ...

Researchers have developed a solution to a 78-year-old mystery. In previous research, it was suggested that adaptation of an animal to different factors looks like spending of one resource and that ...

The waxy monkey tree frog has evolved a unique “sunscreen” to survive harsh and arid conditions. This amphibian can survive ...

Animals harbor vast numbers of microbes in their guts, but the effect of this community on the evolutionary trajectories of the hosts is unclear. Researchers are now using a combination of experiments ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...